Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:
“Her fortune, too, lies there,
Converted into cool hard steel
And right red velvet lining;
While over her tan impassivity
Shot silk is shining.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Wheeled swiftly, wings emerge from larval-silver hangars.
Taut motors surge, space-gnawing, into flight;”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
“We enter church, and we have to say, We have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep, when what we want to say is, Why are we made to err and stray like lost sheep? Then we have to sing, My soul doth magnify the Lord, when what we want to sing is O that my soul could find some Lord that it could magnify!”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
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